Romantic Tangle

April 26, 1986

MONTREAL — The romance of Canada's ambassador to France and one of Quebec's top TV personalities may have spoiled a plan of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Don MacPherson wrote in his political column in the Montreal Gazette that Mulroney had ''great hopes'' that Lucien Bouchard could win the Commons seat that Liberal Jean Chretien resigned but the prospects have dimmed because of Bouchard's entanglement with Denise Bombardier. Bombardier quit her job with the CBC French network, went to Paris and has been seen regularly with the ambassador. Bouchard's wife reportedly has moved back to Quebec. Bouchard and Mulroney have been friends for 25 years.